Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into tracing/urgent

1 files changed, 92 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index af600c0fe0ec..ac613a661f46 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
 	SUSPEND	System suspend states are enabled.
 	FTRACE	Function tracing enabled.
 	TS	Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
+	UMS	USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
 	USB	USB support is enabled.
 	USBHID	USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
 	V4L	Video For Linux support is enabled.
@@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
 			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
 				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
+			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
 
 			See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
@@ -151,16 +153,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			default: 0
 
 	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
-			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
-			See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
+			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
+				  old_ordering, s4_nonvs }
+			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
+			s3_bios and s3_mode.
 			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
 			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
 			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
 			used during resume from hibernation.
 			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
-			control method, wrt putting devices into low power
-			states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
-			used by default).
+			control method, with respect to putting devices into
+			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
+			of _PTS is used by default).
+			s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
+			ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
 
 	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
 			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
@@ -195,7 +201,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
 			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
 			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
-	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}
+	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
 			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
 			that require a timer override, but don't have
 			HPET
@@ -470,8 +476,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
 			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
-			include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h for the valid bit numbers.
-			Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
+			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
+			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
 			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
 			ones should be.
 			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
@@ -552,6 +558,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
 			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
 
+	coredump_filter=
+			[KNL] Change the default value for
+			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
+			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
+
 	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
 			Format:
 			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
@@ -824,8 +835,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
 
-	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV Hypervisor console (HVC)
-			       back-ends. Valid parameters: 0..8
+	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
+			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
 
 	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
 	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
@@ -873,17 +884,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
 
 	idle=		[X86]
-			Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
-			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
-			of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
-			run hot. Not recommended.
-			idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
-			to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
-			loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
-			as idle=poll.
-			idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
+			Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
+			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
+			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
+			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
+			Not recommended.
+			idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
+			the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
+			as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
+			MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
+			the same as idle=poll.
+			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
 			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
-			idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states
+			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
 
 	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
 			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
@@ -914,6 +927,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	inttest=	[IA64]
 
+	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
+		strict	regions from userspace.
+		relaxed
+
 	iommu=		[x86]
 		off
 		force
@@ -1074,8 +1091,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
 			disabled it.
 
-	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
-			C2 power state.
+	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer
+			in C2 power state.
 
 	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
 			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
@@ -1127,6 +1144,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
 			the same attribute, the last one is used.
 
+	lmb=debug	[KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
+
 	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
 			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
 
@@ -1560,6 +1579,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
 
+	noswapaccount	[KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
+			controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
+
 	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
 
 	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
@@ -1579,6 +1601,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
 
+	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
+			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
+			info.
+
 	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
 			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
 			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
@@ -1803,10 +1829,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			autoconfiguration.
 			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
 
-	dynamic_printk
-			Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
-			CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also
-			be switched on/off via <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
+	dynamic_printk	Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
+			CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
+			These can also be switched on/off via
+			<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
 
 	print-fatal-signals=
 			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
@@ -1894,7 +1920,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	reboot=		[BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
 			Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
-			See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c			
+			See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
 
 	relax_domain_level=
 			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
@@ -2294,7 +2320,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
 			-1: disable all passive trip points
-			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value
+			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
+			value
 
 	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
 			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
@@ -2382,6 +2409,41 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 	usbhid.mousepoll=
 			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
 
+	usb-storage.delay_use=
+			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
+			scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
+
+	usb-storage.quirks=
+			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
+			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
+			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
+			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
+			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
+			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
+			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
+				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
+					of sense data);
+				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
+					device capacity by one sector);
+				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
+					reported device capacity by one
+					sector if the number is odd);
+				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
+					device);
+				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
+					unlock ejectable media);
+				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
+					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
+				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
+					reported by the device);
+				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
+					bogus residue values);
+				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
+					Logical Unit);
+				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
+					medium is write-protected).
+			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
+
 	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
 			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
 
@@ -2442,8 +2504,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			Format:
 			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
 
-	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization
-			Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
+	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
+			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
 
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